Ezekiel 42:15 NIV

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 42:1-20

The next section of description deals with the general scheme of buildings surrounding the Temple proper. On the north and south sides were chambers, which are described. These were the holy chambers for the use of the priests, in which they ate the holy things, kept all the materials for the offerings, and changed their garments for the work of their sacred office. Finally, the outside measurements of the whole Temple buildings were given. Passing through the east gate, the angel... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 42:1-20

The Measuring of the Temple (Ezekiel 40:5 to Ezekiel 42:20 ). There follows now the measuring in detail of the temple and the temple area, and we may ask what is the purpose of these detailed measurements? In actual fact they were very important for they confirmed the reality of the invisible temple and its purpose. While a visionary temple, it was nevertheless firmly grounded in reality. The measuring made clear to the people a number of facts which they needed to learn. Firstly it stressed... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 42:15-20

The External Dimensions of the Temple Area (Ezekiel 42:15-20 ). ‘Now when he had finished measuring the inner house he brought me out by way of the gate whose prospect is towards the east, and measured it round about. He measured on the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about. He measured on the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. He measured on the south side, five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. He... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 42:15-20

Ezekiel 42:15-Proverbs : . The description of the Temple concludes with a summary of the principal measurements, according to which the whole enclosure is 500 cubits ( i.e. 750 feet) square. According to Ezekiel 48:12, the land beyond the Temple enclosure was holy; but naturally it was less holy than the courts and buildings which stood within it. The wall, therefore, marks the boundary between that which was holy and that which was relatively profane. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 42:15

The inner house; the holy of holies, the temple, and all the buildings that were in it, and its inner courts. He brought me forth, quite out to the outmost court, and wall of it, which compassed all the rest of the courts. Toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east; to the east gate of the outside wall, mentioned Ezekiel 40:6, which see. Round about, i.e. the four squares of the wall for this, as the other walls, was square, not round, and therefore this round about is to be understood... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1-20

THE CHAMBERS OF THE PRIESTS. (Chap. 42)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 42:1. “Into the chamber”—to the chambers; the Hebrew is a collective noun. “The building towards the north.” The direction in which the chambers lay. Place a comma between building and toward.Ezekiel 42:2. “Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door”—i.e., before the separate place, which was that length. The seer had before spoken of chambers for the officiating priests on the north and south gates of the inner... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 42:1-20

Chapter 42Then he brought me into the outer court, to the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was against the separate place ( Ezekiel 42:1 ),And as I say, I'm going to leave you with this. You may take this diagram home. And the separate place is that area, you'll notice, that surrounds the temple house itself. And he begins to describe for him here this separate place that was about the temple house, verse Ezekiel 42:13 there.where the priests that approach the LORD shall eat the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 42:1-20

Ezekiel 42:4 . Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits. This chapter describes the rows of chambers as a hundred cubits long, and an entrance of one cubit on each side, which make the way two cubits. These chambers were very numerous, in allusion to which our Saviour says, “In my Father’s house there are many mansions.” John 14:2. Ezekiel 42:13-14 . Chambers where the priests shall eat and lay the most holy things. Here is the ordinary use of upper rooms; the princes also and the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 42:15

Eze 42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect [is] toward the east, and measured it round about. Ver. 15. Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house. ] The inner part of the Church. The Church invisible is first and chiefly to be looked into, rather than the external adjuncts, as multitude, prosperity, clarity, antiquity, &c.; the substantials rather than the accidentals. The Church of Rome borrows her... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 42:15

measuring: Ezekiel 41:2-Deuteronomy :, Ezekiel 41:15 gate: Ezekiel 40:6-Nehemiah : Reciprocal: Ezekiel 41:17 - measure Ezekiel 43:1 - the gate that Ezekiel 48:15 - for the city Ezekiel 48:30 - four Revelation 11:1 - a reed read more